I’m not a single mother and I am not close to anyone who is so I can’t speak from observation or experience.
However I have dated dads, single and not so single and those pretending to be single. Like you can’t figure out a married man from miles away.
People who have children have this aura that people who don’t don’t have. They are responsible and lose the child like lightness that people who don’t have kids have.
I have a friend who is my parents age and when we talk, we are like children. We don’t have baggage. We are not burdened. We are not careful about how we spend our money. We are free spirits. Everything is possible and life isn’t a chore it’s an adventure. We are free spirits
and we are lighthearted.
People with kids, carry their kids with them. Everywhere and it shows. When you don’t know what that is like, it’s tiring. You want someone who hasn’t been through the mill of parenthood and you can be new at it together. There is something to being each other’s firsts.
I think single parents deserve love just not from people who have never been parents like they have. It’s mismatched energies.
I’d rather date a younger man with no kids than my age or older with kids. It’s too much baggage for me. Too much.